Improved fastening for bedsteaps



@strut l CHARLES BRADWAY. 0F MAQUOKETA, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 97,270, dated November 30, 1,869.

IMPRQVECD FASTENING- FOR BEDSTEAIDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thenamev To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES BRADWAY,of Maqueketa, county of Jackson, and State of Iowa, have invented a newand useful Metallic Fastening for Port- ,able Tables, Stands, orBedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of thisspecification, inwhich l Figure 1 represents a top View of thefastening, with the rails inserted.

Figure 2 represents the under side and a perspective view of \the same.

Figure shows 'a side elevation of the fastening, with the side rail yandtop and bottom posts inserted.

`The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the metallicfastening in one solid casting, having inclined dovetailed mortisesbetween side flanges, l

for inserting the side rails of a bedstead or table, and adouble-tapered centre aperture, in which the top and bottom posts arefirmly fitted.

To enable others ,skilled in the art to make and u'se my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction.

A represents the metallic casting that is intendedA as a comer fasteningfor side rails and a support for on the inside than at the outer ends,and the lower end being wider than the top, so as to support a strongleg or post, O, the smaller (as shown at D) being the top or ornamentalpart.

The fastening A has two angular ends mortised so as to form supports orfastenings for right and lefthand-rails, by anges E E E E, the sides ofwhich are inclined on the inside, so that `the mortise at thetop, asshown at iig. 1, is wider than the bottom of the lnortise, as shown tfig. 2, and the tenon G of the rail H being cut to correspond with the'width of the mortise between the flanges E and fitting in between theflanges firmly and securely by merely dropping and sliding in thetenoued ends ofthe rails downward, holding the rails closely, andbinding them permanently without any bolt, screws, or extra fasten- 1ns.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isy The construction of the metallic fastening A, with its inclineddovetail mortises between the side anges E E and double-tapered centreaperture B, as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES BRADWAY.

Witnesses:

T. WILBUR, I. L. LAKE.

